Category Archives: git

Re-Writing Eclipse Commit History

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

So you took the plunge and migrated your project from CVS/SVN to GIT?   However at the time you did so, you didn’t think about possibly splitting out the projects into multiple git repositories.   You and your project were … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, git, open source, release engineering, vex | 1 Comment

>Learning to Adapt to new DVCS Workflows.

Posted on September 11, 2010 by

>In the Web Tools Incubator on the XQuery Project we just ran into a small snag with the Eclipse restrictions on how items arrive in the official Git repository. This is being discussed in bug 324768, and I think it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, eclipse, git | 3 Comments

>WTP Incubator Moves to Git

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

>The components in the Web Tools Project Incubator decided back in late May/June 2010 to migrate off of CVS as the source code repository and move to using git. The new git repository for all WTP Incubator components is now … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, egit, git, vex, xml | 3 Comments

>Freudian Slip???

Posted on April 23, 2010 by

>I was checking out the eGit project’s main web page, because I was looking for some new and noteworthy items for the last release. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything from their front page. However the following did catch my eye: … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, git | 2 Comments

>Using Eclipse CVS Git Mirrors for builds

Posted on April 19, 2010 by

>CVS is notoriously slow when it comes to dealing with large repositories and checkouts. For example, in the wst.xsl component, we have a couple of plugins that approach 75 meg in size, and for CVS to check for changes on … Continue reading →

Posted in build, eclipse, git | 3 Comments

>Move to eGit Sooner..Rather than Later.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by

>Today’s eGit/Git chatter in twitter started with some discussion brought up by Wayne Beaton today on the Architecture Council call. When is a good time to move off of CVS/SVN to a git hosted repository at eclipse? Some say when … Continue reading →

Posted in build, eclipse, git | 6 Comments

>Hudson v1.337 installed

Posted on December 12, 2009 by

>….and this time no KA-BOOOM (at least not yet). Everything went fairly smoothly this time out. All plugins seem to be in place and working. We were running version 1.320 on the build machine. 1.337 fixes many bugs and adds … Continue reading →

Posted in build, eclipse, git, release engineering | 2 Comments